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The hard cap on temperature is placed by solar irradiation and Earth thermal radiation. To make a place hotter, a location solar irradiation for the day need to
by Aperocky 5y ago
The hard cap on temperature is placed by solar irradiation and Earth thermal radiation. To make a place hotter, a location solar irradiation for the day need to exceed the combined thermal radiation for both day and night.
CO2 helps capture some of that thermal radiation but even at 500ppm it's not doing that much. And all of this is not considering the movement of air and the effect of ocean which tends to act as a huge circulating heat sink.
The hottest place achieve those temperature by: not being next to water/plants, having no air movement, and sun directly above. The only param that changed with time is small amount of CO2 concentration, the effect on the maximum temperature on Earth should be minimal.
It's the wild swings in random location, change in weather pattern that will be more trouble. That and the rising sea level.
- baix777 5y agoIt is more complex, and worse than that due to heat domes. Air, when it descends, heats up. And a high pressure heat dome results in air descending, so the amount of heat is higher than the amount of solar heat input - earth heat output.